June 2008

Check vs Select

Posted by Gregg on June 17, 2008 in Web 2.0

Working on an survey like application and came to a head scratcher. When some one is instructed to select one item from a list, should the question be presented as a select box, or radio buttons. There is much that goes into the decision.
Radio button method always presents the choices on the screen, [...]

Rice is great when you are hungry and want 2000 of something

Posted by Gregg on June 12, 2008 in Entertaining Me is Easy

Most inspiring CS lecture likely to ever be delivered

Posted by Gregg on June 2, 2008 in Life Experiences

This video really hit home for me, and I now have a new hero. Life is short, live it with a smile.
From the description on youtube:
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving [...]